A courtroom in San Francisco is hearing opening testimony this week in a case to decide whether Google's Android operating system violates patents to the Java programming language. But a bigger ...

Oracle’s copyright infringement case against Google begins Monday and both parties have now provided their respective positions on whether programing languages are copyrightable. Oracle’s copyright ...

Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable ...

OK computer? Michael Williams and Cameron Andrews at Gilbert + Tobin explain how Australian copyright law has failed creators using computers It is almost unthinkable to imagine how in a modern ...

Tuesday, on the virtual eve of the scheduled December 9th release of and vote on the foundational policy for future European copyright reform laws, the Communication from the European Commission to ...

The Reagan administration may call a truce this week in a threatened trade war with Brazil over computers, according to officials here and in Washington. At issue is Brazil`s Informatics Law, which ...

A recent Chinese court decision has hit domestic media headlines, putting the issue of copyright concerning non-human-generated content into the limelight. The Beijing Internet Court ruled in late ...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright is good news for innovation, say ...

It is, firstly, important to establish who the author of the program is. The Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978 (the Copyright Act) defines the “author” of a computer ...